Posted on 02/13/2015 9:25:31 AM PST by Loud Mime
I saw this movie a couple of days ago and am still reeling from its presentation.
It is the story of a family torn apart by the Korean war and how they work from being dirt poor to successful. It is a story of a family losing and finding its loved ones.
It has the sweetest scene I have seen in ANY movie, but it's not staged or recorded. It's a real recording from history, which has a tremendous effect on those watching. It really happened.
This movie is worth watching
If I wasn't at work I would post In the Living Years link from YouTube.
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Sounds like an excellent film
Later
Lot of people watched here. Got bigger audiences than “Selma,” which was a bomb.
I hope they are better than the previous Korean movies that I watched. They both were excellent movies - but incredible downers. One was about two brothers that got separated in the war, and one fought for North Korea, and the other for the South. The second movie was about some poor family in North Korea where the father and family was fairly well off, but then the parents got sent to 'work camps', and the son had to fend for himself. Also something similar happened to his young girl friend (or maybe it was just a girl who happened to be his friend). She dies. Then eventually the father escapes from camp and find his son, and he dies during the escape from North Korea...
Well done movies -- but this is America and I like a happy ending if I'm going to spend time/money on 'entertainment'.
Is it in theaters, online, or DVD? In other words, how might the rest of us watch it?
Another great movie from S. Korea is “71:Into The Fire.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/71:_Into_the_Fire
Movie trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa1G3FAaMM8
The movie with sub-titles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhsA5CsBnFU
Another good one from S. Korea is “The Man From Nowhere.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Nowhere_%28film%29
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38rPoGSr19U
There is an International Film Festival this week put on by the local Brain Factory (Diversity University). Judging by the titles and past history of movies selected by faculty, it is a never-ending parade of vile racism and stupid rednecks. Communists, “revolutionaries” (left wing only), atheists, Moehammedans, oppressed people of color, Warmers, dregs of society and Michael Moore are glorified. OK I repeat myself.
Christian, traditional American and “family” values are mocked.
I have walked out of a few, and I just don’t go anymore. They only attract a crowd of commie faculty, Occupiers, Code Pinkers, and the students who are required to attend.
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This movie has a bright side that is unrivaled in any film I’ve seen.
Of course, to set up the good, some bad must be present. Can’t have one without the other.
It’s in theaters now, but limited.
Search it out; you’ll find it.
I went to a matinee that had about 50 people attending. That’s a lot for a weekday 3 pm movie.
Having grown tired of American and European formula films, I ventured into films from Asia; Korean films are the best of all, It does take some time to get use to subtitles, but the quality of acting, story line and drama is IMO unsurpassed; riveting entertainment.
That sounds like a good recommendation.
Ups and downs are needed to develop the characters and plot, but does it have a Happy Ending? As opposed to those other movies that almost make you want to open up a vein after they are over.
It’s a good ending. It sends a great message.
Don’t want to spoil it.
Good Point.
I love foreign films. This film was well done; good acting and direction.
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